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Example sentences for: stifling

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Years ago, in college, Jack impulsively married smart but prissy Judy (Miranda Richardson), unaware that by doing so, he was entering a stifling ivory tower.
Among other things, the Justice Department accused the company of stifling competition by requiring business partners to sign exclusionary contracts, colluding with Netscape to divide the browser market, and eventually bundling Internet Explorer with Windows to wrest control of that market.
It's true that China's financial interests are best served by stifling its anger.
Religious movements are at their most efficient when they seek very basic goals--like subjugating women or stifling free thought.
Manson is lionized for speaking the "truths" that no one wants to hear: that Christianity is false, that conventional morality is stifling, and so on.